Anticreep railway-rail attachment.



. W R. THOMAS. I ANTIGREEP RAILWAY RAIL ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APB.1'I, 1913.

Patented NOVA, 1913..

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WILLIAM R. THOMAS, or-warnnr'own, W sconsin.

ANTICREEP RAILWAY-RAIL ATTACHMENT.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM R. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of W'atertown. in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anticreep Railway-Rail Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in theclaims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical,- strong, durable, easily applied and eihcient anticreep attachments for railway-rails, the same being an improrement of the: one disclosed. in my Letters Patent No. 1,08l,l68, granted July 30, 1912.

Figure 1' of the drawings represents a transverse sectional YlEW of my improred anti creep'attachrnent and a railway-rail to which it is applied, the section being indicated by line 1-1 in the next described illustration; Fig. 2, a plan view of the attachment partly in horizontal section; F 3, a sectional View of said attachment abutting railway crosstie, the View being indicated by line 3-3 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4. a side elevation of a notched wedge-block constituting part of the aforesaid attach ment.

My improved anti-creep attachment for a railway rail is for the most part a malleable casting member embodying a horizontal plate 5 having a preferably central depending forward stop-flange 6, and. a brace-rib 7 between the plate and flange. Rising from one extremity of the plate is a jaw 8 that preferably extends the full width of said plate and is provided upon its inner vertical face with teeth 9, as shown in Fig. 2. Rising' from the other extremity of the plate 5 are corner jaws 10, and a web 11 intermediate of said jaws. A slot 12 in the plate is also intermediate of the jaws 1G, and the web 11 constitutes the outer wall of' the slot.

Projecting from the upper and lower edges of the web 11. centralof the same or otherwise suitably disposechare teeth 13 designed for engagement with rack-notches 14 provided in the outer side of a wedge-block 15 that engages theplat'e-slot 12 and con-. stitutcs another member of theanti-creep attachment'herein specified.

The plate and jaws of the malleable cast Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 17, 1913.

Patented Nov. 4, 191a; Serial No. 7s1;7s9.

ened by means of ribs 16, and said member of said attachment on a rail 17, thefianges of the rail being caughtin said jaws. The stop-flange 6 of the rail-engaging member of the attachment abuts a crosstie 18 of the railway and the wedge-block 15 is engaged with the slot 12 aforesaid'in opposition to the adjacent flange of the rail. By driving down the wedge-block the flange of the rail farthest therefrom is forced tight in the jaw 8 and against the teeth 9 thereof, as shown in Fig. 1, after which the teeth 13 aforesaid are bent inward into block to preventautomatic retraction of the same from any cause. In Fig. 1, one of the in practice is slipped notches of said wedgeing member of the attachment are strengthteeth 13 is shown engaging a notch of the wedge-block, but the other of said teeth is to be bent inward to engage the adjacent notch of said block and thus completethe union of the two members of the 'antrcreep at-1 tachment in which the rail is firmly gripped, the depending stop-flange of said attachment being opposed by an abutting crosstie that resists the creeping tendency of said raiL' i I claim:

1. A railway-rail anti-creep attachment comprising a slotted horizontal plate memer having rail-engaging jaw-extremities and a forward depending stop-flange for. crosstie abutment, together with a wedge- .block member engageable with the plate-slot in opposition to a flange of the rail, and means integral with the plate member for holding the wedge-block member against antomatic retraction from adjusted position.

2. A railway-rail anti-creep attachment comprising a slotted horizontal plate memher having a depending forward stop fia-nge for crosstie abutment and said plate'proided at its extremities with rail-engaging jaws one of which has a toothed inner face,

together with a wedge-block member engagj ing the plate-slot in opposition to aflange 6f the rail, and means integral with the plate? wedgeblock ,mem-

member for holding the her against automatic retraction from adjusted position;

'3. A railway-rail anti creep attachment comprising a slotted horizontal plate. mem

.ber baring adependingforward stop-flange and provided fat its extremities with railengaging jaws, there being a pair of, the jaws" and an intermediate web at oneev of the plate, said Web constituting a Well have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in of the plate-slot and haviu upper and lower the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis- ,t'eeth, together with a we geblock member cousin in the presence of two witnesses. engegeable with said slot andl having its WILLIAM R. THOMAS. 5 outer side rack-n0tehed to be" engaged by Witnesses: r

the aferesaid teeth N. E. Ommmm, In testimony that I claim the foregoing I M. E. Dummy. 

